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invig··on xAI joins SpaceX
Your argument is that Elon isn't grandiose enough with his statements and timelines?
invig··on A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times
We tried to scale "University". Turns out it doesn't scale well.
invig··on Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air
That's not quite true, what they can measure with the "tap on tap off devices" is people's movement patterns (point to point). That is valuable data that you can't really get just by counting people on and off or taking cash.
invig··on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google
This is a problem that needs to be solved. I guess we should have solved it before the regulators got involved, alas, here we are.
invig··on LLM Inevitabilism
The debate stage is a deliberately constrained environment. The world and where it goes doesn't work like that.
invig··on Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
Summary: "Users get to decide if they trust Apple. Users shouldn't get to decide if they trust anyone else."
invig··on A Letter to the American People
Why bound it to the US Federal service?
invig··on A Letter to the American People
I get what you're trying to say, but 'ideologically diverse' doesn’t really work that way—it’s about ideas, not how things look on the surface.
invig··on A Letter to the American People
You don't really mean "ideologically" there do you?
invig··on A Letter to the American People
What percentage should there be?
invig··on A Letter to the American People
People who take disgruntled actions are definitely the kind of people you want working for you.
invig··on A Letter to the American People
Name the values.
invig··on A Letter to the American People
Well working? Estimated FY 2025 deficit is $1.9 trillion. If they had stopped ALL defense spending they would still lose over $1 trillion dollars in FY25.
invig··on A Letter to the American People
Makes sense that the kind of people who would flip to espionage against their country are the exact kind of people you'd want to keep employed by your government.
invig··on A Letter to the American People
You can make up absolutely anything and call it an unstated goal.
invig··on A Letter to the American People
White men can't be ideologically diverse?
invig··on A Letter to the American People
You're not seriously making the case that the government was hiring strictly based on merit are you?
invig··on "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order
Given that in all cases interpretation is required, are you trying to make the claim that the President (who is elected and can be voted out) should not make the interpretation, and that some employee who is not elected and works for them should?
invig··on The Sam Altman Playbook: Fear, the Denial of Uncertainties, and Hype
GPT-4 is absolutely incredible and even if we never get beyond it the world is a much better place with it than without it. It makes total sense to bet on the team that made this being the best placed people in the world to advance it.
invig··on Humane AI Pin review: not even close
I don't want to unlock to the home screen, I want to unlock to Apple Notes or Notion or whatever your favourite flavour of notes app is.

Being allowed to replace the home screen with some app would be game changing for making the device feel helpful rather than like the little universe of chaos that is is. Let me access other things from the app switcher.

Alas, we will never be allowed to do that.

invig··on Humane AI Pin review: not even close
Apple and Google will do that, no one else will be allowed to. Even if you could get the necessary device permissions (you can't), you're going to get sherlocked and be dead next year when Apple and Google bake whatever interesting thing you did into the OS and all apps get it for free.

You're at such a disadvantage on iOS and Android that it's a fools errand to try and build that app.

invig··on MTA board votes to approve new $15 toll to drive into Manhattan
I don't agree that you can decide for someone what a net transfer to them is.
invig··on MTA board votes to approve new $15 toll to drive into Manhattan
> everyone else in your industry also has the extra $15 now too, so you're not really at any competitive disadvantage

So you're all worse off is a good solution?

invig··on What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane
Yes, but it's all individuals making decisions.
invig··on MTA board votes to approve new $15 toll to drive into Manhattan
Driving a car is like smoking?
invig··on MTA board votes to approve new $15 toll to drive into Manhattan
"It's not that bad". It is.
invig··on MTA board votes to approve new $15 toll to drive into Manhattan
Ever needed more stuff than you could fit in a backpack at work? Ever bought something too big to carry on a bus?
invig··on MTA board votes to approve new $15 toll to drive into Manhattan
This.
invig··on MTA board votes to approve new $15 toll to drive into Manhattan
<3

Sometimes you've got to carry some stuff with you and cars a great at that. Less affluent people getting penalised for needing some stuff to do a job is pretty brutal. No amount of public transport fixes this.

invig··on MTA board votes to approve new $15 toll to drive into Manhattan
Sometimes you've got to carry more stuff than you can fit in a backpack.
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